announced a new 800 calling option and other significant enhancements
to the Sprint Clarity business communications offering announced in
January. The latest options, available June 3, offer Sprint customers
greater choice, flexibility and functionality that may be easily
tailored to their individual requirements.

Through these enhancements to the Clarity platform, Sprint will be the first to offer a fully integrated communications solution to the small to middle business market -- customers who spend between $100 and $75,000 per month on combined outbound and 800 services.
The new Sprint Clarity options, part of an ongoing commitment to further enhance the product, include:
-- Sprint Clarity 800 -- Feature-rich 800 calling option combines
800 and outbound services for greater volume discounts.
-- Targeted Calling Options -- Lets customers tailor service in
one integrated package versus competitors' multiple products
or pricing programs.
-- Clarity Maximum Value Plan (MVP) -- Rewards customers with
greater discounts in return for a one, two or three-year
commitment to Sprint.
Sprint Clarity is an adaptable integrated solution that includes customer-defined invoicing and reporting, a variety of standard and enhanced call management tools and multiple access options. It also offers a variety of fax options, conferencing options, and a PC-based, menu-driven software product for generation of management reports and invoices.
Sprint Clarity surpasses any other communications offering for the small and medium business owner today by providing the industry's first feature rich, fully integrated offering that combines all of a customer's switched and dedicated outbound, 800, card, cellular and international usage from all customer locations and applies this combined usage for greater volume discounts.
Sprint Clarity enables customers to leverage their total purchasing power to provide a business advantage not available through Sprint's competitors. Sprint Clarity's "customer defined invoicing" enables customers to get invoice and reporting information for all locations and calling options, including 800, on one invoice, or individual site-by-site invoices, or any other way the customer prefers.
Sprint Clarity customers may custom design their 800 and outbound service through a menu of advanced features for 800 call routing and call control services.
"Sprint Clarity 800 positions Sprint for 800 number portability (in March 1993) when customers may move their 800 service to Sprint without changing their 800 number," said Gerry Euston, vice president of Sprint's Business Product Marketing.
Targeted Calling Options enable Sprint customers to tailor their service based on specific intrastate, interstate and international calling patterns for each location. Options include In-state, Worldwide, Europe, Pacific, North America and South/Central America. This Clarity enhancement allows Sprint customers to modify service quickly and easily as calling patterns change, ensuring the best value for their telecommunications expenditure and eliminating uncertainty of selecting the best product.
Clarity MVP rewards business customers who sign up with Sprint for one, two or three years with larger discounts on all their long distance calling including 800, card, cellular and international usage. One contract covers all services.
"No one offers choice without confusion quite like Clarity," said Euston. "Sprint will design the optimal access arrangement and calling options for each customer. Customers simply select the desired billing arrangement and features for each of their locations from the Clarity Options Menu. Sprint does the rest. Customers may add to or modify their current selection at any time."
Sprint is a diversified international telecommunications company with $8.8 billion in annual revenues and the United States' only nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network. Its divisions provide global long distance voice, data and video products and services, and local telephone services to more than 4 million subscriber lines in 17 states.
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/NOTE: Sprint Clarity is a service mark./
/CONTACT: Janis Langley, 202-828-7427 or, after hours, 703-533-3322, or Vince Hovanec, 202-828-7423 or, after hours, 202-387-1496, both of Sprint/
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